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diff --git a/Trash/NewMachHistory.mdwn b/Trash/NewMachHistory.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 562d1cac..00000000 --- a/Trash/NewMachHistory.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -# <a name="Table_of_Contents"> Table of Contents </a> - -%TOC% - -# <a name="Early_beginnings"> Early beginnings </a> - -GNUMach is based on Mach4 from University of Utah, which in turn is based on Mach3 from Carnegie-Mellon University. The last release of Mach4 was the [UK22 release](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-i386/html/mach4-UK22.html). - -The oskit-mach version of GNU Mach was presented in November 1999 by Roland McGrath. <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/1999-November/003554.html> The purpose of the port was to get better hardware support through new drivers and platform code available in the OSKit. - -On May 27 2002, after the Gnumach 1.3 release, Roland McGrath merged OSKit-Mach onto the HEAD of CVS making it the Gnumach 2.x mainline. - -# <a name="Status_of_the_project"> Status of the project </a> - -GNU Mach 1.3 was released in May 2002, and features advanced boot script support, support for large disks (>= 10GB) and an improved console. - -GNU Mach is used as the default microkernel in the GNU/Hurd system. It is compatible with other popular Mach distributions. The device drivers for block devices and network cards are taken from Linux 2.0.x kernel versions, and so a broad range of common hardware is supported. - -However, the Linux device drivers have been improved greatly since the 2.0.x version, and a new version of GNU Mach based on the OSKit library is being worked on, which uses newer drivers and in general has cleaner machine specific support code. - ----- - -Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA - -Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. - --- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 24 Oct 2002 |